Norway's Datatilsynet fined Xandr, a Microsoft-owned ad company, NOK 92 million ($9.6M) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data of Grindr users between July 2018 and April 2020. The regulator found Xandr ran real-time ad auctions that exposed users' sexual orientation data to thousands of advertisers without verifying that Grindr had obtained valid consent. The case stemmed from a 2020 complaint filed by Austrian privacy group Noyb and the Norwegian Consumer Council.
Apple has activated its 'get ready for pre-order' feature on the Apple Store Online and app, letting customers select their preferred iPhone Duo color, storage, and carrier before pre-orders open. Shoppers can also set up payment methods, including full payment, Apple Card financing, or the Apple Upgrade program. Official iPhone Duo pre-orders begin Friday, October 16 at 5 a.m. PT/8 a.m. ET.
The TV show That's Incredible, hosted by John Davidson, Cathy Lee Crosby and Fran Tarkenton, broadcast an episode on September 8, 1980 featuring a Toys R Us store in Sunnyvale, California where objects reportedly moved on their own. The segment included a psychic conducting a seance inside the store, located at 130 East El Camino Real since its 1970 opening.
Corey Prophitt shipped a commercial product, marketyour.games, built with the BCHS stack: OpenBSD, C, httpd and SQLite. The app includes user accounts, a search dashboard, folder organization, Stripe payments and Postmark emails, served through CGI binaries rather than a modern framework. Deployment consists of replacing a single statically linked binary, relying on only three external libraries: libcurl, libsodium and libcjson.
Citroën revealed the 2 CV Concept, an all-electric reimagining of its classic compact car, at the Paris Motor Show after teasing it in March. The company says a production version will launch within two years with a target starting price of about 15,000 euros ($16,800), though many of the concept's quirky design features are unlikely to survive regulatory requirements.
Amazon is selling the TOZO Watch 1 for $64.99, a 35% cut from its $99.99 list price. The device includes Bluetooth calling and GPS tracking, and the sale price matches the lowest seen for the product this year.
Coder Lorean Xavier has published an open-source tool on GitHub that reconstructs Hideo Kojima's canceled Silent Hills teaser P.T. as a native Windows executable, rebuilt in C++ and Vulkan. The port requires users to supply their own decrypted copy of the original PS4 game files to recreate the levels, models, sounds and cutscenes, and it adds extras like upscaling, frame generation, a camera mode, experimental third-person and VR modes, and a museum viewer for unused assets.
A commentary piece examines how AI-powered workflows and tools can break or degrade whenever underlying models or features are updated, forcing teams to continually monitor and repair their systems. The author frames ongoing maintenance as an unavoidable part of the total cost of deploying AI, not a one-time setup expense.
After TypeSafe released its Jev decision-model API, which answers yes/no or multiple-choice questions with probabilities instead of generating text, several companies including Microsoft and OpenAI released similar open-source tools. Nandakishor Mukkunnoth of ConvAI Innovations then said he had designed a nearly identical architecture over a year earlier, pointing to his March 2025 arXiv paper on SalesRLAgent, which included published model weights and a dataset.
Amazon is said to be negotiating an acquisition of Decart, a startup whose DOS software optimizes AI models to run on different chips in weeks instead of months, in a deal valued at as much as $7 billion. Decart also builds Lucy and Oasis, AI models that generate simulated 3D environments for gaming and robotics training. Anthropic had reportedly discussed buying Decart for about $6 billion last month but walked away after due diligence, for reasons that remain unclear.
Smart debuted the #2, a compact two-seat electric vehicle styled after the original Fortwo, four years after launching the Smart #1. The car offers up to 180 miles of range, a rear-mounted 60kW motor, fast-charging from 10-80% in 20 minutes, and several trims including a limited 999-unit Couture Edition. Pricing starts under $26,500, with preorders opening in spring.
Adult Swim released a teaser confirming that animated series 'Common Side Effects' will return for a second season in January 2027. The teaser indicates that characters Marshall and Frances will face new threats beyond the DEA investigation that drove the first season's plot.
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